GOP Congressman Say Obama's Hesitance on Iran Responsible for Violence

formerroadie · 06-23-09, 08:35 PM

Why is it that Republicans want to blame everything on Obama even when there is no connection? How does this Congressman rate or have the gaul to make such statements? Stupid.

GOP Congressman Says Obama's Hesitance On Iran Responsible For Violence (VIDEO)

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It was bound to happen. Representative Dana Rohrabacher, a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, accused Barack Obama on Tuesday of allowing violence in Iran to get out of hand by not speaking out against the country's leadership earlier.

The California Republican, appearing on MSNBC's The Ed Show, said that the president "ratcheted up the language a little bit" during his press conference on Tuesday. But, he added, "If [Obama] would have been talking even a little bit tougher a few days ago we might not have seen the violence and bloodshed of this repressive regime in Tehran in the last two days."

The comments, by far the most personal attack on the Obama administration's handling of the situation in Iran, were far enough removed from perceptive analysis that even former Rep. Tom Tancredo - hardly a shrinking conservative voice - pushed back against them.

"I take issue with my very good friend Dana Rohrabacher, believe it or not," the Colorado Republican told Schultz in the subsequent segment. "I actually think that the president was right in the way he was handling the issue. I don't think there was an awful lot he should have said. In a way I was disappointed that he seemed to cave into the pressure he was getting to actually speak more harshly about this in his press conference. I think he was on the right track."

Indeed, even Rohrabacher - after being pressed for clarification - backtracked from accusing Obama of having blood on his hands. It was, he added, the "Mullahs" in Iran who were to blame for the violence. Obama "is responsible for his own actions."

"[The President's] own actions and his lack of a tough statement early on gave them the impression that... emboldened the mullah dictatorship," Rohrabacher said. "It would be like Ronald Reagan going to the Berlin Wall and saying Mr. Gorbachev, that's your business over there."

The video is worth a watch if, for nothing else, to see the outer limits of where the domestic debate of Iranian politics can go.

disneydude · 06-23-09, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by formerroadie

Why is it that Republicans want to blame everything on Obama even when there is no connection? How does this Congressman rate or have the gaul to make such statements? Stupid.

GOP Congressman Says Obama's Hesitance On Iran Responsible For Violence (VIDEO)

its Dana Rohrbacher what do you expect. He is probably the biggest idiot that there is in Congress.

Don't Tase Me Bro · 06-23-09, 08:40 PM

I doubt very much that Obama's words or non-words have any influence on what the Iranian government decides to do to its people.

formerroadie · 06-23-09, 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Don't Tase Me Bro

I doubt very much that Obama's words or non-words have any influence on what the Iranian government decides to do to its people.

Agreed

* your user name is awesome. makes me laugh every time.

Captain America · 06-23-09, 08:42 PM

It wasn't that long ago the Republicans were doing the same thing to our people, right here in America.

They really don't have a lot of moral highground to stand on right now.

goldendog · 06-23-09, 08:49 PM

I think the Iranian gov. is getting it's instructions directly from Dick Cheney.

Redress · 06-23-09, 08:49 PM

The republicans, lacking any kind of platform, are left only with name calling and blaming everything they can think on on Obama. You can see this in microcosm right here on this message board, where certain bitter posters post daily threads calling Obama names and complaining.

celticlord · 06-23-09, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by formerroadie

Why is it that Republicans want to blame everything on Obama even when there is no connection? How does this Congressman rate or have the gaul to make such statements? Stupid.

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“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?”

Rabbi Hillel

He can say these things because they are true.

When a people cried out against oppression, against repression, against tyranny, Dear Leader voted "present".

We will never know if a more forceful and more principled message early on might have altered Khamenei's calculus. We will never know if a more forceful and more principled message might have added just enough energy to the protesters to make brutal repression a dangerous tactic for the regime.

We do know that a mildly forceful and somewhat principled message was not in Dear Leader's teleprompter until after Khamenei responded to Iranian cries for justice and the rule of law with violence and thuggery.

It was an opportunity lost; this we know. How many lives were lost because if that lost opportunity, we will never know.

That is Dear Leader's constant shame.

jallman · 06-23-09, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by formerroadie

Why is it that Republicans want to blame everything on Obama even when there is no connection? How does this Congressman rate or have the gaul to make such statements? Stupid.

GOP Congressman Says Obama's Hesitance On Iran Responsible For Violence (VIDEO)

That was a very irresponsible and unintelligent thing for him to say.

Redress · 06-23-09, 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by celticlord

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When a people cried out against oppression, against repression, against tyranny, Dear Leader voted "present".

This is of course a lie, which is the best he has. Lies and exaggeration are the tools of the fanatical hyper-partisan right these days.

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